Use the small holes of a box grater to finely grate the carrots by hand; if you use a food processor, the carrots will be too wet, making the pancakes dense and less tender.
Rarely do I write a review or make a recipe as is. I find most things need tweaking or have too much sugar. Yes, you could make this healthier, but as is, this recipe is excellent. We have tried 3 of the pancakes in the Christmas Over-the-Top pancake recipe group, and they were all amazingly good. I cannot rave about these pancakes enough. The consistency was perfect. The pancakes tasted like the cakes they were modeled after. Whoever designed these did a great job! I don't really understand the review about the nutritional information. You can figure this out yourself when you make it.
these are so GOOD! you can actually decrease brown sugar in half; also substitute applesauce in place of butter, thus making it less fat but adding sweetness and moistness to the pancakes; we did not have mascarpone cheese for the filling so subsituted neufchatel (1/3 less fat) cream cheese and all was 5-star! Will make again!
